Personal Reading History I'm curious about how others…
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Personal Reading History
I'm curious about how others became readers. Did you have people guiding you through the process and steering you in certain ways? How did that affect the kind of reader you became?
I was almost completely feral. One of my earliest memories was of my dad reading the comic strips in the newspaper to me, but no one in my family was a reader besides me. I never got any social capital for being a reader. It was largely a private thing that I did on my own. English classes in school I treated as a place to come across more literature, but I never thought of it as a place to learn about books. I had no concept of a hierarchy of books. In high school, I kept waiting for Stephen King to win the Nobel Prize. I still have a visceral reaction to the social aspects of reading since that's not how I came up in it. I also don't think of myself as being in league with other readers. I'm more focused on the relationship with the writers I read and don't feel the same connection with other readers.
What are some ways that your introduction to reading affected your development as a reader?
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I'm curious about how others became readers. Did you have people guiding you through the process and steering you in certain ways? How did that affect the kind of reader you became?
I was almost completely feral. One of my earliest memories was of my dad reading the comic strips in the newspaper to me, but no one in my family was a reader besides me. I never got any social capital for being a reader. It was largely a private thing that I did on my own. English classes in school I treated as a place to come across more literature, but I never thought of it as a place to learn about books. I had no concept of a hierarchy of books. In high school, I kept waiting for Stephen King to win the Nobel Prize. I still have a visceral reaction to the social aspects of reading since that's not how I came up in it. I also don't think of myself as being in league with other readers. I'm more focused on the relationship with the writers I read and don't feel the same connection with other readers.
What are some ways that your introduction to reading affected your development as a reader?
#entertainment
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